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17. What served as the model for bills of rights in the individual states following independence and, ultimately, for the federal Bill of Rights? What other nation was influenced by this document?

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Mason's Virginia Declaration of Rights. Articles three through twelve were ratified by the required number of states in December 1791 and became known as the Bill of Rights.

France's Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, which was adopted by the French National Assembly on August 26, 1789, emulates the Declaration of Independence and the Virginia Declaration of Rights.

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